Updated February 04, 2024 by the ABC11 Data Team

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Homicides
Last 12 months
54
 Through February 04

Average Homicides
2020 to 2022
34

Per year

Homicide Rate
Last 12 months
25.9

Per 100,000 people

Average Homicide Rate
2020 to 2022
16.4

Per 100,000 people


Homicides over the last 12 months are trending up 58.8% compared to 2022, according to the latest data available from Fayetteville Police Department.

The murder rate over the last 12 months is up 57% compared to the annual average over the last three years.

One way to think about the danger: in 2019, the murder rate was 11 per 100,000 residents. That’s less than the likelihood of someone dying in a vehicle crash in North Carolina. In fact, the risk of homicide remains much lower than most other leading causes of death in the state.



The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

ABC11’s data team looked at the Fayetteville Police Department’s data by neighborhood from 2019 through February 04, 2024. ABC11’s citywide and police zone counts are based on the police department’s open data of every police incident, which is updated daily and published online. Because the city’s data is based on incident reports, some cases may not be counted yet. Murders, for example, are included in the data later than other types of crimes.

A closer look at homicides by police district

The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.

You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates.

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A note about Fayetteville Police Department data and these pages: Statistics here count every incident in police data. Methodology for some government reports of crimes tabulates only the most severe incident if two crimes are reported as part of the same incident. For example, a homicide and a burglary will get counted in some crime totals as one incident of the most serious crime. Modern FBI methodology would count each incident as an individual crime, so it would count as a burglary and as a homicide. That is how the city data records incidents and how these pages and charts tabulate crimes.